One of the nice things about this question (apart from the serious in-depth answers) is that Eric Lippert himself comes with an answer after discussing it direc

One of the nice things about this question (apart from the serious in-depth answers) is that Eric Lippert himself comes with an answer after discussing it directly with the people that can actually provide the proper fix. Q&A at it's best! edit same goes for Jon Skeet of course, and looking for info about him I came across this http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts/9235 http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/9134/jon-skeet-facts... which has some hilarious ones like Jon Skeet's SO reputation is only as modest as it is because of integer overflow (SQL Server does not have a datatype large enough) and When Jon Skeet points to null, null quakes in fear.